digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Don't miss this opportunity to photograph San Francisco and the Bay area with a local master photographer! Saturday August 23 and Sunday August 24, 2014 The San Francisco Bay area…
This image, with the working title Gates after Rodin, shows one model many times. The model, Jacs Fishburne, is a self-described "tornado disguised as a woman." In the studio, Jacs…
I feel like showing the six images in my Multiple Exposures series (at least so far there are six) in one blog story. Thanks Marianne for the great title suggestion…
My twelve year old son Nicky (shown here a while back) was in the ensemble at Berkeley Playhouse for a teen production of the musical Shrek. For opening night, his…
I've been testing a new interchangeable lens camera, the Sony Alpha a7R, to see if I can happily use it. The a7R can truly be thought of as a new…
In the surprising uplands of Dordogne and Lot in the southwest of France high alkaline plateaus are bisected by deep river valleys. You'll find medieval towns and castles, with markers…
Way off the beaten track in the southwest of France, I stopped to photograph the ancient church at Sainte Croixe de Beaumont. This complex belonged to the Knights Templar, and…
Please consider joining me on a photographic odyssey to Japan in the spring of 2015. This is my dream trip to Japan, a once in a lifetime exclusive eighteen-day opportunity. This…
I was reminded of the very high resolution you can get from an inexpensive flatbed scanner recently when there was interest in a large print from one of my scanned…
When is a photo not a photo? For many people in the photography and art worlds the answer to this question seems to depend on the aesthetics of the image…
Photographing the Paris skyline at dusk would seem to be pretty straightforward. The rooftop observatory on top of the Tour Montparnasse is open late, and there are gaps in the…
The Gloriosa Lily is a notoriously poisonous---and extremely beautiful---flower. We had the Gloriosa and many other exceptional flowers to play with at the recent Creative Flower Photography workshop sponsored by…
It was a rainy drive from Heidelberg to Aalen, Germany. Once I got off the autobahn, the countryside was lush with moisture, but going was slow. I stopped for lunch…
The Citroen C2V was fondly known as the "deux chevaux," or two horses, after its putative power. Actually, the C2V engine has something like twenty horse power, and this is…
I set my camera up on a tripod and framed a sidewalk with some windows and a bicycle in old Heidelberg, Germany, waiting for pedestrians to come by. It was…
The only way to combat jet lag flying east---there is a nine hour time difference between California and Germany---is to try to get some sleep on the plane, then stay…
How are peonies, iPhones and implementation details related? The relationship between how a photo was made and the perception of the photo by those who view it is an interesting…